It may be nerdy but I still host the occaisonal LAN party. With laptops being more popular it combines the fun of online gaming whistle still physically hanging out within poking distance.
Anyways, with alot (and I mean ALOT) of old video games, (StarCraft, Aliens vs Predator, Age of Empires, etc) they wouldn't run without the CD, they would either blue screen asking you to re-insert the CD or pop up with an error message and crash.
The funny workaround is that if you load a game, and turn the music setting to its lowest, or off, it no longer requires the CD to run, just to start it.
Thus, LAN Gaming jumps forward with a single cd.
But a Credit Card isn't money that you have either - its Credit. Theoretical money that you essentially have because you have a job.
When you create something and plan on selling it, and then someone copies it and gives it away for free - thats theoretical money you're losing, the same as credit basically. Maybe even worse then credit, because you can at least call up your credit card company and cancel your card or even have theft insurance for it.
Starting up a business and/or developing a project costs you money, and essentially you expect to see a return on that, and if someone else gives your stuff away from free, you will never see that time or money back.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Open Source, I think its one of the few precious jewels in the world, it allows for mass collaberation and major improvements.
But if you guys want to take away Copyright because its "All for the man" or what-not, you're going to put us developers out of a job.
The two can peacefully coexist, and have before.
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It may be nerdy but I still host the occaisonal LAN party. With laptops being more popular it combines the fun of online gaming whistle still physically hanging out within poking distance. Anyways, with alot (and I mean ALOT) of old video games, (StarCraft, Aliens vs Predator, Age of Empires, etc) they wouldn't run without the CD, they would either blue screen asking you to re-insert the CD or pop up with an error message and crash. The funny workaround is that if you load a game, and turn the music setting to its lowest, or off, it no longer requires the CD to run, just to start it. Thus, LAN Gaming jumps forward with a single cd.
But a Credit Card isn't money that you have either - its Credit. Theoretical money that you essentially have because you have a job. When you create something and plan on selling it, and then someone copies it and gives it away for free - thats theoretical money you're losing, the same as credit basically. Maybe even worse then credit, because you can at least call up your credit card company and cancel your card or even have theft insurance for it. Starting up a business and/or developing a project costs you money, and essentially you expect to see a return on that, and if someone else gives your stuff away from free, you will never see that time or money back. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Open Source, I think its one of the few precious jewels in the world, it allows for mass collaberation and major improvements. But if you guys want to take away Copyright because its "All for the man" or what-not, you're going to put us developers out of a job. The two can peacefully coexist, and have before.
You don't lose anything if I steal your credit card information either. The idea is that you'll lose money over it.